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Jimmy Page

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Jimmy Page, born on January 9, 1944, is a British guitarist and music producer. He is one of the founders of the rock band Led Zeppelin, known for his unique guitar playing style and musical composition skills.

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“I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.”

All Things Appetite Worldly

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“There's a very old recording maxim that goes, 'Distance makes depth.' I've used that a hell of a lot-whether it's tracking guitars or the whole band. People are used to close-miking amps, but I'd have a mic out around the back, as well, and then balance the two. Also, you shouldn't have to use EQ in the studio if the instruments sound right. You should be able to get the right tones simply with the science of microphone placement.”

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“You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a speciﬁc moment is what drives it.”

Moments Structure Mood Intensity Spontaneity

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“The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.”

Long Has Beens Ideas Culture Talking Pieces Middle Long Time Prime Eastern Delta Hypnotic African Culture Delta Blues

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“Artists say that paintings are never done. I sort of feel the same way about music. I would never say something is perfect. There are performances that can generate a lot of emotion in me when I hear them, but I can't say if anything is perfect.”

Ifs Way Feels I Can Done Artist Perfect Emotion Painting Performances

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“I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that's what I wanted it to be.”

Way Wanted Guitar Vehicle

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“There is no way I would play guitar like a tour de force like I did in Led Zeppelin. John Bonham, phenomenal drummer, young man with his technique, but do you think he would ever have the opportunity to play like that in another band? Of course he hadn't.”

Thinking Men Way Play Young Courses Opportunity Force Band Guitar Technique Young Man Drummer Phenomenal Zeppelins

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“The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.”

Thinking World Doe Different Whole Individual Can Do Player Identity Guitar Guts Different Worlds Classical Guitar

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“There's so much that can be done on the guitar. And that's what is so good about the guitar - everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it's all about.”

Done Enjoy Guitar Good Times Having A Good Time

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“The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those six strings it is incredible what one can get sound-wise. It's just down to imagination, really.”

Sound Imagination Wise Six Guitar Incredibles Range Guts Strings Hendrix

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“From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it's amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.”

Thinking Mean Sound Guitar Experiments Electrical Classical Guitar

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“There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That's a personal point of view but that's the way I see it. I think that's what it's all about. The drive, the fire, the passion - it all comes out on the guitar.”

Thinking Way Passion Views Fire Player Guitar Point Of View Sensitivity Guitar Player Acoustics Acoustic Guitar Synthesizers

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“I do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that's a strong character, the stronger the person is.”

Believe Persons Different Character Strong Stronger Guitarist Different Characters Strong Character

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“I can only listen to what I'm working on, at the time. I can't listen to anything else because I don't want to copy it.”

Want I Can Copies

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“Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.”

Fans Depends Degrees Musician Life Changing Life Changing Experience

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“There's music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you're playing it or you're receptive, as an audience.”

People Ifs Audience Heard Relate Receptive

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“There's always music that moves me. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It's usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.”

Mean Different Moving Rocks Genre Reaching Different Genres Parentheses

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“You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.”

Helping Artist Environment Our Environment

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“Many people in the neighborhood liked hip-hop and house music, and I couldn't play that. You can't perform that on guitar or drums, which was what I was playing, at the time. But, I got so much from mariachi bands that were constantly playing in the neighborhood.”

People Play House Band Guitar Hip Hop Hips Hops Neighborhood House Music

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“I don't like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, "I'm only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world." I don't like to say that to people either. But, I do think there's a loss of romance.”

People Thinking World Romance Loss Release Format Vinyl

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“Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you're playing an instrument that is really hard.”

Ifs Needs Hard Easy Bits Instruments Guitar Expensive Friendly Users Steers Guitarist User Friendly

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“I bet you can't play slide piano.”

Play Piano Slides

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“Actually, I'm getting one made up with eight necks and I'm going to get a wheelwright to make a big rim around it and then I can do cartwheels off the stage.”

Made I Can Bigs Can Do Stage Eight Necks Zeppelins Rims Cartwheels

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“(The Song Remains The Same) is not a great film, but there's no point in making excuses. It's just a reasonably honest statement of where we were at that particular time. It's very difficult for me to watch it now, but I'd like to see it in a year's time just to see how it stands up.”

Years Film Song Difficult Watches Honest Particular Remains Excuse Statements No Point Great Film Making Excuses

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“I'm obsessed - not just interested, obsessed - with folk music, street music, the parallels between a country's street music and its so-called classical and intellectual music, the way certain scales have travelled right across the globe. All this ethnological and musical interaction fascinates me. Have you heard any trance music? That's the thing.”

Way Country Certain Heard Streets Intellectual Musical Folks Scales Obsessed Interaction Globes Parallels Folk Music Trance

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“But if you want me to knock Kingdom Come, all I will say is that I heard the guitarist said he'd never heard my playing, and I'd defy any guitarist in American not to have heard Led Zeppelin.”

Ifs Want Said Heard Kingdoms Want Me Guitarist You Want Me Zeppelins If You Want Me Kingdom Come

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“There will be a Led Zeppelin as long as there's a Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones and Robert Plant. This isn't a nostalgia band playing the hits forever. If anything ever happened and somebody left - which I really can't see happening - I don't think we'd bother to carry on. The magic for me is as it is now.”

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“I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.”

Ifs Would Be Utopia

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“A lot of people can't be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.”

People Giving Security Give Me Bother Isolation Frightened

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“My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.”

Crosses Fingers Incompetence

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“I know where I'm going musically. I can see my pattern and I'm going much slower than I thought I'd be going.”

Knows I Can Patterns

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“I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I've got to do is keep playing.”

Knows I Can Know How Ought

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“I'm not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn't come into it.”

Play Picks Technique Guitarist Technicians

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“I deal in emotions. It's the harmonic side that's important. That's the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I've got to keep at it.”

Mean Important Sides Deals Emotion Expected

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“There's such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar... flamenco, jazz, rock, blues... you name it, it's there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.”

Art Important Dream Names Wealth Rocks Style Jazz Guitar Composing Fuse Flamenco

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“I think it's time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.”

Thinking World Real Streets Musician Around The World Gathering

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“This week, I'm a gypsy. Maybe next week it'll be glitter rock.”

Next Week Rocks Glitter Gypsy Next Week

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“You know what you can gain when you sit down with the Moroccans. As a person and as a musician. That's how you grow.”

Knows Persons Grows Musician Gains

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“You can't buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.”

Seems Race Race Against Time

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“I know what I want to get down and I haven't got much time to do it in.”

Knows Want Havens Down And

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“I had another idea of getting a traveling medicine wagon with a dropdown side and traveling around England. That might sound crazy to you, but over there it's so rural you can do it. Just drop down the side and play through big battery amps and mixers and it can all be as temporary or as permanent as I want it to be.”

Want Ideas Play Bigs Might Sound Sides Can Do Crazy England Medicine Permanent Temporary You Can Do It Batteries Wagons

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“I like change and I like contrast.”

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“I don't like being stuck in one situation, day to day.”

Situation Stuck Day To Day

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“Domesticity and all that isn't really for me.”

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“I don't care what critics and other people think.”

People Thinking Care Critics Don't Care I Don't Care

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“So far I've been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?”

People Play Position Musician Fortunate

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“I will still carry on changing all the time.”

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“You can't expect to be the same person you were three years ago. Some people expect you to be and can't come to terms with the fact that if a year has elapsed between LPs, that means one year's worth of changes. The material consequently is affected by that, the lyrics are affected by that... the music too.”

People Ifs Years Mean Persons Facts Three Term Materials Years Ago Affected Three Years

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“I don't feel I have to top myself at all.”

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“There's too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.”

Musician Sagging

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Born: January 9, 1944
Known for: Musician
Quotes: 134

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